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Show GERMANS CAPTURE 70I00J5515 CLAIM TO HAVE ACHIEVED GREAT VICTORY IN BATTLE IN EAST PRUSSIA. Three Hundred Officers Among the Captured, the Casualty List Being Large, While the Russian Artillery Ar-tillery Was Destroyed. Washington. Tho uerman embassy on Tuesday gave out a message from Berlin, received by wireless, claiming that tho German forces had captured near Allcnsteln 70,000 IUiBslan prisoners, prison-ers, Including two commanding generals, gen-erals, 300 ofllcers and tho cntlro equipment equip-ment of Hussion artillery. Tho official statement ot tho big German victory against the Hussions attracted wldo attention. iMIlltnry observers ob-servers pointed out that If tho number num-ber of HusBlanB taken prisoners had been correctly estimated at 70.000 thcro must havo been great casualties, no mention of which is made. Tho Btatoment conlllcts to Rome extent ex-tent -with one Issued by tho French embassy carllor In tho duy, which speaks of tho progress of tho Russian offenslvo army. Tho official claim of tho GermaiiB, howover, that 70,000 Husslans wero captured exceeds In magnitude any operation thus far recorded, re-corded, I Tho London Times' correspondent I at Amiens reports that "the Germans I came over ub like a flood raised by a I storm. During tho flrat month of tho I war moro than 12.000,000 German vol-lunteera vol-lunteera catno forward. Tho chief ot tlm German sanitary department ofllclally ofll-clally declared there uro many proofs that the Kugllsh and French are using dum-dtim cartridges. "Tho stato of health of tho German army Is good, noted by hyglenlsts accompanying ac-companying the army." |